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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jcm11030722
Keywords
antibiotics; biofilm; Bacillus tequilensis; capillary electrophoresis; SEM
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- National Science Centre, Krakow, Poland [2020/37/B/ST4/02136]
- Torun Center of Excellence Towards Personalized Medicine operating under Excellence InitiativeResearch University
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The study aimed to characterize biofilm before and after antibiotic treatment using methods such as 16S rRNA gene sequencing and capillary electrophoresis. Results showed that antibiotics (amoxicillin and gentamicin) can alter the surface charge of bacterial cells, leading to cell clumping. Additionally, microscopic and spectrometry studies revealed that antibiotics inhibit cell wall synthesis and ribosomal protein synthesis in bacterial cells.
Biofilm is a complex structure formed as a result of the accumulation of bacterial cell clusters on a surface, surrounded by extracellular polysaccharide substances (EPSs). Biofilm-related bacterial infections are a significant challenge for clinical treatment. Therefore, the main goal of our study was to design a complementary approach in biofilm characterization before and after the antibiotic treatment. The 16S rRNA gene sequencing allowed for the identification of Bacillus tequilensis, as a microbial model of the biofilm formation. Capillary electrophoresis demonstrates the capability to characterize and show the differences of the electrophoretic mobility between biofilms untreated and treated with antibiotics: amoxicillin, gentamicin and metronidazole. Electrophoretic results show the clumping phenomenon (amoxicillin and gentamicin) as a result of a significant change on the surface electric charge of the cells. The stability of the dispersion study, the molecular profile analysis, the viability of bacterial cells and the scanning morphology imaging were also investigated. The microscopic and spectrometry study pointed out the degradation/remodeling of the EPSs matrix, the inhibition of the cell wall synthesis and blocking the ribosomal protein synthesis by amoxicillin and gentamicin. However, untreated and treated bacterial cells show a high stability for the biofilm formation system. Moreover, on the basis of the type of the antibiotic treatment, the mechanism of used antibiotics in cell clumping and degradation were proposed.
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